مجموعة ٦/ ٤٨ "النفط: امتيازات في المملكة العربية السعودية. (الأحساء)" [ظ‎‎٤‎٦‎٠] (١١٥٣/٩٢٢)

as provided for in this agreement, the Company and the concession will be
exempted from all direct and indirect taxes, dues, charges and fees (including
customs dues on export and import). It is understood that this privilege does
not include the sale of products inside the country and the personal requirements
. V 1 . 6 mem bers of the staff of the Company. The Company is not allowed to sell
witiiin the country any of the tools and material imported without payment of
customs dues except after payment of such dues.
Article 19.
It is naturally understood that the Company has the right to use all the
mea d| s a . n( * facilities which it may think necessary for its work and which shall
enable it to fulfil the requirements of this concession, and which comprise
other affairs such as buildings, using roads, camps, fittings and all roads
tor communications, and to erect and employ machines and other means connected
witii the digging of wells or transport, or storage, or manufacture, or exportation
ot petrol and its products or any other thing which may have connexion with the
camps, buildings and the premises to be engaged by the employees of the Company.
J he Company has the right to build and use cisterns, reservoirs and basins and
also has the right to build piers, quays and lines for shipments and to use all
other means for the transport of employees, machines and petrol and its products.
n any ^ase, it is understood that the question of employing aeroplanes within the
inmts of the country will be subject to another separate agreement. The Company
has the right to procure, take and use water and also has the right to take and
use any water which belongs to the Government for the purpose of carrying out
the work m connexion with the project provided that such action must not
t arise harm to irrigation or deprive land, houses and watering-places of sufficient
water from time to time^ The Company has the right also to make use of any
natural products which belong to the Government, such as sand, timber, stones
June, gypsum and other materials of the same nature. Government employees
and agents (during performance of their official duties) will have the right to
use the means of transport and communications which will be established by the
0111 panv, provided that such action should not hinder or embarrass the affairs
of the Company indicated in this agreement, and should not cause the Company
any material loss. The commandeering of the means of transport and communi'-
cations belonging to the Company by the Government during the occurrence of
national trouble will entitle the Company to reasonable compensation for any loss
" hlc ' h 11 “y undergo or for any harm which may occur to the works and establish-
ments of the Company or hinder or embarrass its works.
Article 20.
The concession provided for in this agreement shall be manao-ed and
super\ ised by American persons, who will engage so far as possible persons from
amongst the subjects of the Saudi Arab Government and in so far as it is oossible
itCwi 7 PanV t0 t , nnd capable and fit employees from amongst Saudi subiects
it shall not engage the subjects of any other Government. The Company should
of einplols^ 118 “ ^ 111 this withTe tL=
Article 21.
, i The ^ ov ernment reserves the right of prospecting in the authorised zone for
other products and materials apart from those provided for in this agreement
by the wells and establishments of the Comnanv nrnvidprl that ,i,;
is reserved by the Government should not S L'ng^s^fnted to^™v
and should not expose its work to danger and nrovirUH n om P an y
p*i ■” lt„ G wh“
Company may undergo on account of the exercise of that right Whenever the
rights reserved by the Government are granted, the person in possession of this
concession will be bound by the provisions of this article. P ossession ot this
Article 22.
, , Th ®. «Of>-nment authorise the Company to acquire from landowners any
and which the Company may suggest is necessary for its work in connexion with
this concession, provided that the Company pay to the landowner a reasonable